Lepanthopsis barahonensis (Cogn.) Garay 1969 SUBGENUS Lepanthopsis SECTION Fractipectin Luer 1991
Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer ©
Common NameThe Barahona Lepanthopsis [A region in the Dominican Republic]
Flower Size .1" [2mm]
Found in Dominican Republic and Haiti in moist forests at elevations around 600 to 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 7 lepanthiform, shortly ciliate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, minutely denticulate margins, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a loose, distichous, flexuous, .2 to .3" [5 to 8 mm] few flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from the apex of the ramicaul with simultaneously opening flowers.
"Distinguished by the minutely cellular-denticulate margined leaves, 2 to 3 simultaneously produced flowers arising on a short, loose, flexous raceme. The sepals and petals are ovate and acute. Most diagnostic is the obtuse, ovate-cordate lip without retrorse basal lobes and the exposed shaft of thecomparitively elongate column that is not embraced or encircled by the basal lobes of the lip." Luer 1991
Synonyms Lepanthopsis dentifera (L.O.Williams) Garay 1969; Lepanthopsis fuertesii (Cogn.) Garay 1969; *Pleurothallis barahonensis Cogn.1912; Pleurothallis dentifera L.O.Williams 1951; Pleurothallis fuertesii Cogn. 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Pleurothallis barahonensis; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Pleurothallis fuertsii; Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthopsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 drawing/photo fide; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000
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